You were in college working part-time waiting tablesLeft a small town, never looked backI was a flight risk, with a fear of fallingWondering why we bother with love, if it never lastsI say, Can you believe it?As we're lying on the couchThe moment I can see itYes, yesI can see it now

Do you remember we were sitting there by the water?You put your arm around me for the first timeYou made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughterYou are the best thing that's ever been mine

Flash forward and we're taking on the world togetherAnd there's a drawer of my things at your placeYou learn my secrets and you figure out why I'm guardedYou say we'll never make my parents' mistakes

But we got bills to payWe got nothing figured outWhen it was hard to takeYes, yesThis is what I thought about

Do you remember we were sitting there by the water?You put your arm around me for the first timeYou made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughterYou are the best thing that's ever been mine

Do you remember all the city lights on the water?You saw me start to believe for the first timeYou made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughterYou are the best thing that's ever been mine

And I remember that fight, 2:30 AMAs everything was slipping right out of our handsI ran out crying and you followed me out into the street

Braced myself for the goodbye'Cause that's all I've ever knownThen you took me by surpriseYou said I'll never leave you alone

You saidI remember how we felt sitting by the waterAnd every time I look at you, it's like the first timeI fell in love with a careless man's careful daughterShe is the best thing that's ever been mine

Hold onMake it lastHold onNever turn back

You made a rebel of a careless man's careful daughter (hold on)You are the best thing that's ever been mine (hold on)

(Oh yeah)Yes, yes, do you believe it? (hold on)Yes, yes we're gonna make it now (hold on)Yes, yes, I can see it (come on, come on)I can see it now